Thanksgiving

I went for a walk this morning, which was nice. I'm thankful that I get to work with people (adults and kids) that I'm fond of, but I'm not someone who really craves company. In fact, by nature I'm pretty content to be alone. One of my weaknesses in business is that I don't like being bothered, and so by logical extension I don't like bothering anybody else. Well, part of an account manager's job is to bother people and make sure they're doing your work, (I'll expand on how ad agencies operate at another time) and I just wasn't very good at that part. Anyway, it was nice to take a nice walk alone.

We seldom do a traditional Thanksgiving dinner here. We go to grandma's house one night, the night this year being Friday. Last year on the Thursday we went out to eat, but since I'm the only one in my family who actually likes turkey, it wasn't very successful I didn't want to do some kind of miniThanksgiving, so I decided we're having a Thanksgiving brunch.

Interesting to go in a supermarket on Thanksgiving. It's not your usual crowd. There's a lot of action in the baking aisle, which is usually pretty unpopulated, and there are a lot of men who seem to be husbands sent out to get a missing ingredient or two. I was buying a bunch of things for the brunch, but I was also looking for whole blanched almonds (the kind with no skin). Nuts are confusing to find in the supermarket. There's always an aisle that says "nuts," but only a small fraction of the nut varieties live there. There's a pretty good selection in the baking aisle, but most of the action is in and around the produce. I counted at least 20 different types of almonds in this supermarket, including skinless slivered, sliced and dry roasted and salted, but no whole, plain blanched almonds. Sigh. Off to Whole Foods, to fight off the hordes of vegans swarming around the Tofurkey case.